Day 5

In the Time of the Butterflies Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Students read Chapters 10-11

Common Core Objectives

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• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.1 Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2 Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.3 Analyze how and why individuals, events, or ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

• CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.4 Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and...

Minerva is bored and feels like she is going nowhere. She has no boyfriend and people suspect she is a lesbian. She is bored and jealous of Elsa and Sinita, who are studying in the capital. She feels like her friends are doing something with their...

I didn't see the movie but Minerva always wanted to go to university in the capital. She is also in the city a few times, once to beg the release of her father.I'll need a chapter to find out where you mean.

Essays for In the Time of the Butterflies

In the Time of the Butterflies essays are academic essays for citation. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez.